Homeland

It's good to be back on top. Just ask Alex Gansa, who on Thursday was celebrating "Homeland's" Emmy nomination for drama series -- a year after the Showtime spy thriller was shut out of the same category. "Now I can be completely honest and tell you how devastating it was," he said of last season's snub. "It was really hard." In hindsight, though, the slight may have been a blessing in disguise. As Gansa explained, getting passed over for drama series just two years after "Homeland" had swept the Emmys ceremony for its freshman season was a major motivating factor going into Season 4. FULL COVERAGE: Emmy nominations ...

"Birdman" led the way in SAG nominations with four, followed by "Boyhood," "The Imitation Game" and "The Theory of Everything" with three each."Birdman" snagged nominations for Michael Keaton for lead...

A naive asset unwittingly helps the CIA’s Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes) close in on a terrorist plotting against Americans. But the covert operation ultimately backfires with tragic consequences on “From A to B and Back Again,” Episode 406 of...

To track down a Pakistani terrorist likely plotting an attack on Americans, the CIA’s Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes) must quickly win over a young and frightened asset on “About a Boy,” Episode 405 of Showtime’s “Homeland.” Expelled college student...

A terrorist supposedly assassinated in an airstrike turns out to be alive – and likely plotting an attack on Americans – in Episode 404 (“Iron in the Fire”) of Showtime’s espionage thriller “Homeland.”
A secret informant identified Taliban leader Haissam...

Last year, we had the weird Emmys; this year, we had Weird Al Yankovic.
The curly-haired pop-music parodist took the stage Monday at the Nokia Theatre to perform a medley of theme songs from Emmy-nominated shows including "Mad Men,"...

Any group of awards bestowed by one group of humans on another will inevitably be considered arbitrary, political, meaningless, myopic or absurd (unless, of course, you win one, at which time they become shiny symbols of wisdom and insight).
The Emmys...

While you're sitting on the couch watching TV this weekend and feeling like you should be doing something more with your life, take comfort in the fact that the leader of the free world might be doing the exact same thing!
President Obama is scheduled to...

ABC and the producers of "The Bachelor" have issued a statement in response to comments made Friday by "Bachelor" star Juan Pablo Galavis. The latter's words were "thoughtless and insensitive" reads the statement,...

Yeah, this isn't going to end well for you, Juan Pablo.
America may have fallen for ABC's new "Bachelor" when the long-running reality show debuted with strong ratings this month, but I have a feeling the love affair will end swiftly after...

BET's first original scripted drama, "Being Mary Jane," may be a solid performer for the network, but its initial ratings have not been encouraging.
The second episode of the series, which stars Gabrielle Union as a successful cable news...

Shock. Grief. Satisfaction.
Those were some of the sentiments experienced by devoted fans as they reacted to the killing off of key characters on top dramas in what seemed to be a banner year that could have been subtitled: "There Will Be Blood --...

It was a sweet year to be a TV critic. Some of us have been shouting into the wind for years, but finally and yet somewhat miraculously, television is being acknowledged as a legitimate and ascendant art form.
Books were published, panels held, praises...

The Screen Actors Guild Award nominations were announced five minutes ago and the awards won't be announced for another month. But let's take a wild stab at predicting the winners anyway. Not that this group is that hard to read. SAG voters have...

Up and down, in and out, no other show has been so instantly lauded and rigorously criticized as Showtime's terrorist thriller "Homeland," which came to its third season close Sunday night.
Over the course of three years and countless plot...

This old dog is still open to new tricks, witness this year's Golden Globes nominations.
Fresh blood was the theme of this year's TV portion when nods for the 71st annual Golden Globe Awards were announced Thursday.
The Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. has...

FX is heading to Tel Aviv with the new drama “Tyrant” from “Homeland” producers Howard Gordon and Gideon Raff, giving the buzzy drama it fought to snag a series order.
Production on the drama is set to begin in Israel in March, with a rollout slated...

The nominations for the 20th Screen Actors Guild Awards were announced Wednesday morning. In the television categories, cable once again ruled the pack, with "Breaking Bad," "Homeland," "Behind the Candelabra" and...